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I see:
t/1_run.t .... skipped: OpenSSH 4.1 or later required

You obviously don't have OpenSSH 4.1 or later, but the Net-OpenSSH-0.70 README says that OpenSSH 4.1 or later is required, and recommends OpenSSH 5.x.

I therefore suggest your problem is that your version of OpenSSH is too old (and unsupported by Net-OpenSSH-0.70).
However, I don't actually know if this is the case - but the first thing I would try is to update the OpenSSH installation.

Cheers,
Rob
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Re^2: Cpan install gets stuck installing Net OpenSSH ?
by salva (Canon) on Mar 11, 2016 at 08:32 UTC
    Actually, that looks like a Solaris box. The ssh client bundled is an old fork of OpenSSH (SUN ssh, well, now probably Oracle SSH) which is not supported by Net::OpenSSH.

    Packages for the real OpenSSH may be available from Oracle or 3th party repositories.

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      I got farther this time. No errors about missing or wrong versions of OpenSSH. But I am still getting stuck at this: Password: t/1_run.t .... skipped: Unable to establish SSH connection to localhost! t/quoting.t .. Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"LANG"} in pattern match (m//) at t/quoting.t line 17. I'm not sure what/where this env value is located or how to fix it.
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        See perlvar on %ENV. It seens that in your environment, the environment variable LANG is not set. But that is just a warning and not really a cause for a failing test. As a workaround, you could run export LANG=C.

        What is the real output you get when running make test?

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Re^2: Cpan install gets stuck installing Net OpenSSH ?
by jtzako (Sexton) on Mar 11, 2016 at 17:13 UTC
    It appears this is the case. We have the sun version of OpenSSL and SSH. I'm looking into getting those upgraded.
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Re^2: Cpan install gets stuck installing Net OpenSSH ?
by jtzako (Sexton) on Mar 11, 2016 at 20:45 UTC
    OK, so now that I got the ENV variable sorted out, it is still getting stuck at "t/quoting.t". However, it is not giving me any error now, it just sits there until it eventually times out (takes 1hr+ for some reason).
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      The next step is to run the hanging test in isolation to see at which test it stalls (and maybe even see why):

      cpan
CPAN> look Net::OpenSSH
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ perl -Ilib -w t/quoting.t

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        Still seems to get stuck, and no error so far. Its been running for ~45 minutes now and no progress. 
        -bash-3.2$ sudo cpan
Password: 
Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402)
Enter 'h' for help.

cpan[1]> look Net::OpenSSH
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
Going to read '/usr/local/home/myuser/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:17:02 GMT
Running look for module 'Net::OpenSSH'

Trying to open a subshell in the build directory...
CPAN: Data::Dumper loaded ok (v2.124)
'YAML' not installed, falling back to Data::Dumper and Storable to rea
+d prefs '/usr/local/home/myuser/.cpan/prefs'
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02)
Checksum for /usr/local/home/myuser/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SA/SALV
+A/Net-OpenSSH-0.70.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /usr/local/home/myuser/.cpan/build for sizes
......................................................................
+......DONE
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.52)
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/mod_perl_openssh.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/login_handler.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/autosudo.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/git_ssh_through_mux.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/change_passwd.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/git_with_password.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/net-telnet.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/expect.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/password_from_data.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/sshfs_mount.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/sample/keep_in_sync.pl
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/Changes
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/MSCmd.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/fish.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/POSIX.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/Chain.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/csh.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/MSWin.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ObjectRemote.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/Constants.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ModuleLoader.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/OSTracer.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ConnectionCache.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH/SSH.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/lib/Net/OpenSSH.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/common.pm
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/known_hosts
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/uri.t
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/test_server_key.pub
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/test_user_key
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/test_user_key.pub
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/1_run.t
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/test_server_key
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/t/quoting.t
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/patches/
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/patches/openssh-fwd-stdio-to-streamlocal-1.patch
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/Makefile.PL
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/README
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/MANIFEST
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/META.yml
Net-OpenSSH-0.70/META.json
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
Working directory is /usr/local/home/myuser/.cpan/build/Net-OpenSSH-0.
+70-ARY6NC
# perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Net::OpenSSH
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
# make
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ConnectionCache.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ConnectionC
+ache.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/fish.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuote
+r/fish.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/POSIX.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/POSIX.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ModuleLoader.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ModuleLoader.p
+m
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/Chain.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/Chain.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/Constants.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/Constants.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/SSH.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/SSH.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/MSWin.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/MSWin.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/MSCmd.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/MSCmd.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/OSTracer.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/OSTracer.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/csh.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter
+/csh.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ObjectRemote.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ObjectRemote.p
+m
Manifying 7 pod documents
# perl -Ilib -w t/quoting.t

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